| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.06.2018 | Quest Analytics Buys Healthcare Compliance Software Firm BetterDoctor | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
BetterDoctor, a San Francisco-based startup that has built a national database with information on physicians, dentists, and other practitioners, has been acquired by a Wiscon... |
| 03.08.2016 | 500 Startups adds digital health track to focus on marketing, distribution, growth | In a phone interview, Rebecca Woodcock, an entrepreneur-in-residence at 500 Startups who is heading up the digital health track, outlined some of the program elements. Woodcock has had some success as a digital health entrepreneur. She prev... |
| 08.06.2016 | SoftTech VC founder highlights health IT plans with latest $100M seed fund | Asked to identify a recent health tech investment, Clavier named Molekule. The new company develops an air purifier that uses “blue light” to degrade airborne particles to support people with respiratory conditions such as asthma or COPD.
I... |
| 15.04.2015 | How much of NEA’s new, $3.1 billion fund will finance healthcare companies? A third, perhaps. | NEA’s broadly declared interest in the biopharma, healthcare services/IT and medical device spaces. That funding will range from seeding to providing larger funding amounts for clinical stage companies. Forbes writes:
NEA favors initial che... |
| 14.01.2015 | Prodigious healthcare investor NEA is raising a $2.5 billion fund | This would be the 15th fund for the company. Its previous fund — NEA 14 — raised about $2.56 billion in 2012, according to SEC documents. NEA 13 in 2009 raised $2.45 billion. Each fund’s initial Form D was a fair bit lower than subsequent a... |
| 15.07.2014 | BetterDoctor Closes $10M Series A Funding Round | BetterDoctor, a San Francisco, CA-based online doctor search service, closed a $10m Series A round of funding.
The round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investors SoftTechVC and Lifeline Ventures... |
| 15.07.2014 | NEA Backs BetterDoctor’s Quest To Develop Tools To Find A Better Doctor | For Ari Tulla, the chief executive officer in NEA’s newest portfolio company, BetterDoctor, the decision to launch a company was a matter of more than just money.
Almost ten years ago, Tulla’s wife began treatment for a serious illness. At ... |
| 15.07.2014 | BetterDoctor Closes $10M in Series A |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Doctor search service BetterDoctor has closed a $10 million Series A funding round led by New Enterprise Associates.
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| 15.07.2014 | Physician Search Tool BetterDoctor Adds Medicare Data, Raises $10M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Ari Tulla, CEO and co-founder of BetterDoctor, knows what it’s like to need a good physician in the midst of health turmoil, when patients are often at their weakest. “There i... |
| 01.07.2014 | Physician finder app BetterDoctor raises $10M | San Francisco-based patient education tool BetterDoctor raised $10 million, according to an SEC filing. The company told MobiHealthNews the round is not yet complete. This brings the company's total funding to at least $13 million to date.
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| 27.06.2014 | BetterDoctor raises $10M more for health-provider referral platform | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Physician referral has become a big business as p... |
| 27.06.2014 | BetterDoctor raises $10M more for health-provider referral platform | Physician referral has become a big business as people begin to think less like passive patients and more like health care consumers.
Case in point is San Francisco-based BetterDoctor, which operates an online referral service for dentists ... |
| 27.06.2014 | Funding Daily: All funding you can eat | Get your silverware and hand wipes, because we’ve got plenty of funding news for you to consume today.
500 Startups is crowdfunding its new $100M fund
If crowdfunded investments become the norm for startups trying to raise capital, accelera... |
| 27.06.2014 | Funding Daily: All funding you can eat | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Get your silverware and hand wipes, because we’ve... |
| 12.06.2014 | BetterDoctor’s New Mobile Health App Integrates Medicare Provider & Payment Data | BetterDoctor, a company focusing on simplifying doctor discovery and booking has announced today that its mobile health app is the first to integrate Medicare’s provider and payment data. The Medicare procedure and pricing data integration ... |
| 11.12.2013 | DrChrono to developers: Use our API to help us fix health care | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Health care is a massive market opportunity for a... |
| 11.12.2013 | DrChrono to developers: Use our API to help us fix health care | Health care is a massive market opportunity for any developer — and yet, only about 1.3 percent of the application programming interfaces (APIs) on ProgrammableWeb are associated with clinical services.
In Mountain View. Calif, a company ca... |
| 27.10.2013 | BetterDoctor Raises $2.6M in Seed Funding | BetterDoctor, a San Francisco, CA-based platform to help users find doctors, raised $2.6m in seed funding.
The round was led by SoftTechVC and Burrill & Co., with participation from 500 Startups. In conjunction with the funding, Jeff Cl... |
| 22.10.2013 | BetterDoctor Raises $2.6 Million to Alleviate the Pain of Finding a Good Doctor | CHRISTINA FARR OCTOBER 22, 2013 1:12 PM |
| 22.10.2013 | BetterDoctor Raises $2.6M To Help Americans Find A Quality Doctor | BetterDoctor, a doctor-finding service that analyzes hundreds of data sources to rank every doctor in the United States has raised $2.6 million in seed funding from leading Silicon Valley seed and healthcare investors, including SoftTechVC,... |
| 22.10.2013 | BetterDoctor nets $2.6 million to expand company | San Francisco-based patient education tool BetterDoctor raised a $2.6 million seed round to expand its staff. Jeff Clavier from SoftTechVC and Dirk Lammerts from Burrill & Co led the round. Incubator 500 Startups also contributed.
Launc... |
| 22.10.2013 | With $2.6M From SoftTech, 500 Startups & More, BetterDoctor Wants To Take The Pain Out Of Finding The Best Local Care | After a frustrating search to find the best local doctor in San Francisco during a “series of family emergencies,” Ari Tulla teamed up with friend and co-founder Tapio Tolvanen to do something about it. The result of what Tulla calls his “v... |
| 22.10.2013 | BetterDoctor raises $2.6M to alleviate the pain of finding a good doctor | BetterDoctor has raised $2.6 million in funding to do exactly what you might expect: Help you find a better doctor.
On BetterDoctor, which functions like an “Opentable for doctors,” you can search for a health care expert in a range of spec... |
| 22.10.2013 | Physician finder app identifies specialists by user insurance plan raises $2.6M | Investors in the company include seed stage investor SoftTechVC, 500 Startups and healthcare venture investor Burrill & Co. Jeff Clavier from SoftTech and Dirk Lammerts from Burrill & Co are joining the company’s board.
Other physic... |
| 22.10.2013 | Doctor-finding service BetterDoctor gets $2.6M Seed | SoftTechVC, Burrill & Co, 500 Startups invest in a platform to make the doctor search easier
BetterDoctor - a platform to help you find doctors - just raised a $2.6 million seed round, led by SoftTechVC and Burrill & Co. 500 Startup... |
| 05.07.2013 | New health data outs doctors whose patients die more often | Most of us peruse reviews and check out diner ratings before booking a fancy restaurant. But when it comes to selecting a doctor to perform life-saving surgeries, we have no equivalent to Yelp. People typically rely on their social networks... |
| 05.07.2013 | New health data outs doctors whose patients die more often | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Most of us peruse reviews and check out diner rat... |
| 21.05.2013 | Meet the winners in our Grand Rounds innovation showdown: Beyond Lucid and Liviam | If there’s one thing the health care industry needs, it’s technology innovation that’s actually usable for both doctors and patients.
To help identify the next generation of industry-changing innovations, VentureBeat’s HealthBeat conference... |
| 21.05.2013 | Meet the winners in our Grand Rounds innovation showdown: Beyond Lucid and Liviam | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If there’s one thing the health care industry nee... |
| 10.05.2013 | Meet the 10 startups competing in the HealthBeat ‘Innovation Showdown’ | We’re blown away by the quality of the more than 150 applicants to the HealthBeat 2013 “Grand Rounds Innovation Showdown,” one of the highlights of VentureBeat’s inaugural health tech conference (May 20-21 in San Francisco).
We asked startu... |
| 01.03.2013 | Meet 29 of SXSW’s Hottest Startups, Vote For Your Favorite [Poll] | What happens when you mix Tech Cocktail with SXSW? A day so chock full of action, it'd make Michael Bay blush. And it should come as no surprise that at the center of this action is some of this year's most buzz-worthy tech startups.
Beginn... |
| 02.01.2013 | The Ultimate Guide To The 50+ Hottest Health And Fitness Apps, Gadgets And Startups Of The Year | The holidays wreak havoc on our bodies, with their mandatory over-indulgence in food as well as family and reminiscences. As we reflect on the year past — its victories and losses — we also begin looking ahead to the next, and in big ways o... |
| 26.12.2012 | 13 Startup Headlines You Will Undoubtedly Read in 2013 | The lines between entrepreneurialism and wizardry are blurry, for future gazing is a superhuman competitive advantage possessed by both. Mastering the current business landscape is a skill in it of itself, but predicting where its headed ma... |
| 11.10.2012 | BetterDoctor’s Ad-Free Physician Search Tool Goes Nationwide | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Every year, 70 million people in the United States set out to find a new doctor. It may be because they’ve moved or switched jobs (and hence insurers), or because they’ve gott... |
| 08.10.2012 | BetterDoctor, the ‘OpenTable for doctors’, launches nationwide (exclusive) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
If you’re feeling achy and unwell, the last thing... |
| 18.09.2012 | Who is San Francisco’s Hottest Showcasing Startup? [POLL] | Earlier this year, Tech Cocktail Mixed together a couple hundred Bay Area tech enthusiasts with a dozen local startups at The Mighty. Good news SF, we're coming back to you. As part of next week's Tech Cocktail San Francisco Mixer < regi... |
| 11.09.2012 | Physician finder startup BetterDoctor sets out to provide a better search tool | Considering the growing number of physician finder/doctor ratings websites, and how vast this country is, it’s only natural that other companies are rising to the challenge. San Francisco-based BetterDoctor, the latest startup to join the f... |
| 10.09.2012 | OpenTable For MDs: BetterDoctor Launches To Help You Find The Best Available Care Near You | “This is my personal vendetta against the broken healthcare system,” Ari Tulla tells me, mid-pitch, while standing on the sidewalk after a recent TechCrunch event in Redwood City. He’s talking about BetterDoctor, a startup he co-founded las... |
| 23.02.2012 | Founders Den Demo Day Part Deux: 14 Startups Come Out Of Hibernation | Our SOMA neighbor and “clubhouse for entrepreneurs” Founders Den had its second Demo Day today, out of its spacious office in SOMA. Many of the startups presenting were niche plays, trying to tackle the issues of curation and data in variou... |
| - | Prodigious healthcare investor NEA is raising a $2.5 billion fund | New Enterprise Associates, a prodigious venture investor in healthcare across biotech, medical devices and healthcare services, is raising a $2.5 billion fund, according to an SEC document. If its previous funds are anything to go by, it co... |
| - | How much of NEA’s new, $3.1 billion fund will finance healthcare companies? A third, perhaps. | Venture firm New Enterprise Associates made some massive waves today on news that it’s closed its fifteenth – and largest – fund, which holds $3.1 billion. And a huge swath of that – 30 to 40 percent, according to Fierce – could likely be a... |
| - | Physician finder app identifies specialists by user insurance plan raises $2.6M | It seems like physician finders are as common an add-on service for mobile health apps as medication reminders. It’s all part of the consumerization of healthcare trend. With such a big market in the U.S., entrepreneurs sense opportunity an... |
| - | SoftTech VC founder highlights health IT plans with latest $100M seed fund | SoftTech VC has raised $100 million for its fifth fund, a seed fund that will allocate 15 percent to 20 percent of its capital to invest in health IT startups, according to a company statement. Health IT has been an area of interest for the... |
| - | 500 Startups adds digital health track to focus on marketing, distribution, growth | In its 18th class of startups, 500 Startups digital health track includes eight companies.
500 Startups has a history of investing in healthcare startups —49 actually, including uBiome, BetterDoctor, Dr. Chrono and Fitocracy. But with its 1... |
| - | Physician finder startup BetterDoctor sets out to provide a better search tool | Considering the growing number of physician finder/doctor ratings websites, and how vast this country is, it’s only natural that other companies are rising to the challenge. San Francisco-based BetterDoctor, the latest startup to join the f... |
